Roger Ascham Primary School

Applying for a Primary School Place in Reception

If you would like your child to attend our school, please see full details of our admission arrangements. The school offers 60 places per year group. if you would like to visit the school before making your application please phone or email the school office for an appointment.

Our admissions criteria are described in the Waltham Forest booklet ‘Starting Primary School’. The current booklet can be viewed on the Waltham Forest website with the criteria set out on pages 11 – 14. Our policy is that LBWF run our schools’ admissions and we follow their guidelines, criteria and procedure.

If there are more applications than there are places available at a school, Waltham Forest will use the following criteria, in priority order, to decide who should be offered a place. If you wish to apply under priorities 1–4, you must tick the box to indicate this on your application, and supply supporting documentation.

• Priority 1 – Looked After Children or Children ‘At Risk’
• Priority 2 – Medical or social reasons
• Priority 3 – Siblings
• Priority 4 – School Staff Children
• Priority 5 – Distance

Children with a statement of Special Educational Needs are awarded a school place under the terms of the 1996 Education Act - not through the admissions criteria. They will be allocated a place at the school named on their Education and Health Care Plan. The priorities are explained in full in the admissions booklet.

Please note:

• Children do not automatically transfer from nursery to a Reception class;
• Children do not automatically get a place if they have a brother or sister already at the school;
• In both these instances you still need to make an application.

National Offer Day is April 16th - this is the day that will find out the results of your reception application as long as you made your application by 15th January.

Please visit the Waltham Forest Admissions webpage for more information on applying for a primary school place. If you have any questions then you can contact the admissions team directly via call or email.

In Year Admission Procedures

Please contact the school office for details of how to apply for any school place other than a Reception place starting in September.

Applying for Secondary School

There is a lot of information online regarding your child and applying for a secondary school place but we have supplied some relevant points for you;

Before making the application:

• Read the information brochure
• Contacting other Authorities that you are interested in
• Contact schools and ask for a prospectus
• Look at the schools website
• Do any of the schools require a supplementary information form (SIF)
• Reading reports on the schools by OFSTED
• Going to the schools open evenings

Key points to be aware of:

• Some schools are oversubscribed each year
• Try and get a realistic idea of whether your child will be offered a place.
• Read the admission criteria for each school (they are not all the same)
• How many admissions made last year, how the places were allocated
• Does the schools curriculum and aims suit the needs of your child
• Think about travel and possible costs

Making Your Application:

Applications for secondary schools should be made online between 1st September and 31st October.